Thursday, February 7, 2008

Let the Confectionery Sugar Fall - What Bliss!

As promised, the confectionery sugar dusting had a second presentation which extended the work. Now the children are provided with two wafer-thin, plain gingerbread cookies to dust with confectionery sugar so as to perfect their bakery skills. Additionally, there were stencils added to the work. One of these I cut from a paper plate, the others belong to my assistant Jill. The metal discs are from her Spritz cookie maker. They worked wonderfully. The children have declared their love for this work. Those who have not yet celebrated their birthday now talk about being excited to decorate their cupcakes at school with the confectionery sugar tray. I am so pleased with the success of this work.

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Susan Slocum Dyer is the great-great granddaughter of Joshua Slocum, the first person to solo-circumnavigate the world and author of the classic text, "Sailing Alone Around the World." Ms. Dyer is an internationally published author, herself, and gives maritime lectures at sea ports across the globe.

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The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world and am free.

Wendell BerryPoems to Live by in Uncertain Times

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